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Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you 🙏

Happy tropical day, everyone! I guess we're making up for lost time. Fast forward the show, please! Ed Sullivan was right, IT'S A REALLY BIG SHEW, FOLKS! Jees, I should be selling woof tickets on this one.

Me oh me oh my, wasn't that a party? Remember me? I was under the table with the cat at the party. The cat was a-singin the blues after drinkin' too much booze, and I was the bookie from Milwaukee selling woof tickets for the hockey game. 😆 😂 🤣 🥲 There ya go, make the best of it while you can because tomorrow you could be a-singin'', The Tennessee Bird Walk, while standin' on Main Street in your dirty underwear.*_

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I hope my little foray on the silly side of life was something —a smile, a little humor, light, a straw of hope to hang on to. Everyone needs those few precious moments. Even during the Great Depression, some would save everything they had for the theatre and the saloons. I did the saloon fly thing. It may have been fun in the beginning, but it ended up being a dead-end road. I ended up in the swamp with the alligators. 🐊 The best escape is in your mind, 😶‍🌫️ ✨ 🌙 🪐, and ya don't need stimulants, or do you need to leave the farm?

Before we begin the discussion, let's take a moment to pray, meditate, and consider how we can get involved. As the Three Stooges say, "Don't know what to do? Just start pushing buttons." Whatever method you have at your disposal. Block, hamper, counteract, persist to resist, uphold, and support the constitutional laws of the land.

Ω~~ VIVE LA RESISTANCE ~~Ω

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

IMAGINATION

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Imagination: is the ability to form new concepts and mental images of things that are not actually present to the senses, or to create new ideas by combining previous experiences. It's a fundamental human capacity that allows us to understand the world, solve problems, and create new things...

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Formation of Mental Images:

Imagination allows us to conjure up mental pictures of things we've experienced or even things we've never encountered, like a fantastical creature or a future invention...

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*Imagination:* is the production of sensations, feelings and thoughts informing oneself.[1] These experiences can be re-creations of past experiences, such as vivid memories with imagined changes, or completely invented and possibly fantastic scenes.[2] Imagination helps apply knowledge to solve problems and is fundamental to integrating experience and the learning process...

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Once my imagination awoke and kicked me in the shinbone, I have never been bored for very long. Like Walt Disney, those characters are always swimming around, not far away in my imagination.

Squeaky the Duck, Snifferoo the mummy in his flotation device in the pool is cool. Charlie the one-eyed ghost is sunbathing on the chaise lounge and drinking a Martini, and Bobbie McGee is serving iced tea. And all the little eyeballs are hiding under the beach blanket. Even Wooly, the mammoth, in her bikini, is in the pool doing the backstroke alongside Archibald the witch doctor and his boomerang in my imagination station's swimming pool.

🤣 😂 😅 😆 🥹 It's not fair, there should be more homemade comedians on these social networks.

OK! Now on to The News:

BREAKING NEWS:

Watch: Intense standoff outside California farm between protesters and federal agents

The Ventura County Fire Department said they responded to calls of people having breathing problems at a farm in Ventura County, California, after federal agents appeared to deploy tear gas canisters into the crowd. A DHS spokesperson told CNN that they were "executing criminal warrants at a marijuana facility." It is unclear if any arrests were made.

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In my opinion, with that Dunce Brigade of greenhorns The Trumpet has for a Gestapo, the greenhorns they are will pull the trigger, probably shoot themselves in their own feet, in a panic. Then that will spark off a counter-resistance by we, the people, at least I don't think every frog in the US is into allowing themselves to be slowly boiled. It appears that the civil war has reared its head.

Clarence Thomas has long tried to undercut the Voting Rights Act. Now, he may finally have the numbers

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been imploring his colleagues for decades to gut a crucial part of the iconic Voting Rights Act that prohibits practices denying Blacks, Hispanics and other racial minorities an equal right to vote.

When Thomas first laid out his objections in 1994, insisting that the act was exacerbating rather than easing “racial tensions,” several colleagues called his position “radical,” and only Antonin Scalia endorsed it. But as more right-wing justices have joined the court, the views of Thomas, a conservative African American, have gained traction.

Now, a mysterious order from the high court in a Louisiana redistricting case suggests it is seriously reconsidering the scope of VRA safeguards against congressional and state legislative district maps that dilute minority votes. The looming battle comes as some states, notably Alabama, are resisting court orders to remedy discrimination, and President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is abandoning the federal government’s usual role in protecting minority voting rights...

• White voters challenging majority-Black district in Louisiana:
• Who gets to enforce VRA’s Section 2?:

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Published 6:00 AM EDT, Fri July 11, 2025

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What the firing and death of a transport minister reveals about Putin’s Russia

As scattered details of the apparent suicide of Russia’s former transport minister Roman Starovoit trickled in via state media on Monday, one stood out. Near his body, the Kommersant newspaper reported, investigators found a Glock pistol that Starovoit had been given as an award.

In October 2023, in his previous job as governor of Russia’s Kursk region, Starovoit was pictured in a local news article being presented with a velvet-boxed firearm from the region’s interior ministry for his role in maintaining security there. Fast forward 21 months and his death came amid reports he may have been doing the exact opposite. Two sources told Reuters he was suspected of being involved in a scheme to embezzle millions of dollars earmarked for border defenses. Defenses that would undoubtedly have come in useful when Ukrainian troops launched a surprise invasion there last August.

There’s no way of knowing if it was the same pistol, and it’s not clear yet if the corruption case had anything to do with his firing (no official reason was given) or his death. But the image it creates of a state-sponsored self-destruction, of a once rising star in Vladimir Putin’s political elite dead near his Tesla, with the spoils of his former loyalty, is especially poignant in today’s Russia...

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Updated 7:17 AM EDT, Fri July 11, 2025

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Trump threatens even steeper 35% tariff on Canadian goods

U.S. President Donald Trump released a letter late Thursday threatening to impose 35 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods on Aug. 1, an unexpected move that came as the two countries engaged in negotiations around trade.

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U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened even higher tariffs on Canadian goods.

CUSMA-compliant goods are again exempt, so the new 35% rate will be expected to apply to goods currently tariffed at 25 per cent.

Trump said the new rate would take effect Aug. 1, though he suggested he could change his mind again between now and then.

“These Tariffs may be modified, upward or downward, depending on our relationship with your Country,” the president wrote at the end of a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney.

The latest move has thrown off trade negotiations between the two countries. They had agreed to try and make a new economic deal by July 21, but Carney extended that deadline to Aug. 1 after Trump's letter last night.

U.S. president says increase would take effect Aug. 1

Updated July 11, 2025 -18 minutes ago

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And so goes the cat and mouse game. I'm on the side of the mouse. The Mouse that Barked! 🐭 🐕 🍁

UN reports nearly 800 deaths near Gaza aid hubs, humanitarian convoys in last 6 weeks

Most reported injuries near aid hubs since late May were gunshot wounds, UN says

The UN human rights office said Friday it had recorded at least 798 killings within the past six weeks at aid points in Gaza run by the U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and near convoys run by other relief groups. The GHF uses private U.S. security and logistics companies to get supplies into Gaza, largely bypassing a United Nations-led system that Israel alleges has let Hamas-led militants loot aid shipments intended for civilians. Hamas denies the allegation.

The European Commission said Monday it has no evidence that Hamas is stealing humanitarian aid in Gaza. After the deaths of hundreds of Palestinian civilians trying to reach GHF's aid hubs in zones where Israeli forces operate, the United Nations has called the aid model "inherently unsafe" and a violation of humanitarian impartiality standards...

• Most injuries were gunshot wounds: UN:

Gaza doctors cram babies into incubators as fuel shortage threatens hospitals

Palestinians, human rights activists slam Israeli defence minister's plan to build camp on Rafah's ruins

• What to know about Francesca Albanese, the UN investigator sanctioned by the U.S.

• 7 children killed in Israeli strike while lining up for nutritional supplements in central Gaza
• Most injuries were gunshot wounds: UN:

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Posted: Jul 11, 2025 8:33 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

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Netanyahu and his dunge 💩 brigade WEENIE 🌭 SUKIN COCROACHES! 🪳

♪♫NATURE'S SOUNDS AND MUSIC TO SOOTH THE SOUL♪♫

🖼~Relax, and rest for a while in the garden of peace~🖼

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